CCrane Venture Partners
Crane Venture Partners is a London-based early-stage venture capital firm, founded in 2015, that backs enterprise and infrastructure software founders from inception to seed, with cheques of roughly $0.5–5M. Its focus areas include AI systems, infrastructure and developer software, security including post-quantum security, and robotics, and it invests across Europe, North America, India and Asia-Pacific from offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Singapore and Bangalore. In September 2026 it announced $484M (€419M) across four vehicles: Crane III ($169M), Crane APAC I ($150M), Crane US I ($100M) and Crane Opportunity Fund I ($65M), alongside an inception-to-seed platform built with MassMutual Ventures. Portfolio companies include Cyberhaven, H2O.ai, Onfido, Encord, Qure.ai, Zluri and Stratio Automotive, and exits include Tessian, Re:infer, Shipamax and Raito (acquired by Collibra).
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Portfolio companies 3
Open 3 as list → On map →Funding rounds 5
Open as list →| Date | Company | Round | Amount | Lead |
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| 2026-04-29 | Fence | Series A | $20M |
Galaxy Ventures
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| 2024-06-17 | Tinybird | Series B | $30M |
Balderton Capital
+3 more
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| 2022-04-20 | Nuclia | Seed | €5M | Crane Venture Partners, Elaia |
| 2022-04-05 | Tinybird | Series A | $37M |
CRV
+4 more
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| 2021-07-01 | Tinybird | Seed | $3M |
Crane Venture Partners
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News 6
Open as list →| Published | Article |
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| 2026-09-15 |
Crane Venture Partners raises $484M across four funds to back founders from London to Bangalore ↗
Tech Funding News
2026-09-15 |
| 2026-02-11 |
Chiral Raises $12 Million to Unlock Post-Silicon Computing Beyond Moore's Law ↗
The Quantum Insider
2026-02-11 |
| 2025-09-15 |
Crane Venture Partners Launches $135M APAC I Fund ↗
GlobeNewswire
2025-09-15 |
| 2025-08-20 |
SRE.ai Raises $7.2 Million Seed Round to Redefine Enterprise DevOps for the AI Era, Backed by Salesforce Ventures and Crane Venture Partners ↗
GlobeNewswire
2025-08-20 |
| 2025-03-26 |
ConfigHub raises $4M to bring order to chaotic mass of configuration files ↗
SiliconANGLE
2025-03-26 |
| 2024-08-13 |
AI data development platform startup Encord raises $30M ↗
SiliconANGLE
2024-08-13 |



















